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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.

Hermann Hesse

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Apperance Home Tree
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
Solitude is independence.
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Alone Creativity Independence One Liner Solitude
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Believe Faith Goodness Inspirational Transformation
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Life People Reality World Yoga
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
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Believe Deep Endurance Happiness Life Love Perspective
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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Exception Philosophy Reality
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
Every experience has its element of magic.
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Element Experience Magic
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Action Greatness Life Myself
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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Men Money Nature Power Ruin
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Flower Heart Try
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Discovery Journey Men
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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Path Philosophy
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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Beautiful Clever Opinion

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